The Posthuman (a lecture)
‘In their ten-thousand, three hundred and ninth year of marriage, Leila and Jasim began contemplating death. They had known love,...
Election 2013: The Question Hangs in the Air
And so election day dawns, the nation convenes, and the question hangs in the air: after tonight, when the count...
If it quacks quite a lot like a fascist duck..
Does professed opposition to centralised State power render a political party non-fascist, though its policies and ideology in many other...
Where Credibility Fails in Advocacy Journalism
[these considerations prompted by discussion that formed part of the Bradley Manning court-martial on and prior to July 10th 2013....
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle: Australian Spin-Doctor Hired as Tories Target work-shy ‘Scroungers’ in UK.
Lynton Crosby, the spin doctor responsible for some of the nastiest politicking of the Howard Government in Australia during the...
Why support for the Australian Government is currently unconscionable
In the Absence of a genuine Opposition prepared to take Government to task for its many transgressions, in the absence...
Regulation and Constraint of Online Discourse
‘We have a natural right to use our pens as we use our tongues – at our peril, risk and...
Climate Change Denial and the Pro-Slavery Lobby: A Rhetorical Comparison
In retrospect, 205 years after the abolition of slavery, the position of reactionary Pro-Slavery forces appears not only appalling and...
Myth in the Origin of Democracy
The central, binding myth for the modern Western state is that of Democracy, celebrated in the festival and performance of...
